Storage Fabrics

BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).

How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.

This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.

Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.

Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.

Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.

The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...

Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.

Building a Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
Chances are your company has dabbled in the cloud. Perhaps you have moved the company Website to an on-demand cloud-based infrastructure service. Your developers may be testing their new applications in the cloud before releasing them. It's likely that your line of business colleagues subscribe to multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, whether or not IT was involved in the decision.
In this paper, we list the steps toward building a cloud roadmap, ...

Data center operational efficiency best practices
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Highly efficient data centers allow IT to spend 50% more on new projects - but only 1 in 5 data centers currently operate at this level. The new IBM Global Data Center Study surveyed 300+ IT executives in seven countries to understand the current state of their data centers' operational efficiency and uncover the best practices that mark the way to high efficiency.

Read the study to learn the role optimization, flexibility, automation and strategy play in ...

5 Elements of the New Age Data Center
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
How can IT organizations embrace new cloud technologies and meet new big data
challenges without adding complexity to their companies? Enterprises generally are
embracing the new-age data center strategy needed to tackle these opportunities, but
key obstacles remain, among which the co-existence with legacy systems and apps sits
atop many lists.
The value proposition favors IT organizations today, especially in hardware acquisition
costs, and the opportunity to rent services and infrastructure in the cloud ...

All Clouds are Not Created Equal: A Logical Approach to Cloud Adoption in Your Company
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
In conference rooms worldwide, enterprise IT departments are evaluating entry into 'the cloud'. Armed with media reports and marketing materials, they are considering questions like, "Is the cloud appropriate for critical workloads? Will the cloud really save time and money? Does the cloud pose a security risk?"
There's only one problem with such due diligence: there's no such thing as 'the cloud'. Instead, there are multiple clouds, with different configurations, offered by different providers and ...

True Cost of Tape Backup
[ Source: 3X Systems ]
April 2009-
Companies frequently assume that their current backup solution or backup management process can be retained at no cost to the company. However, in the case of tape backup, the reality is that the cost of “doing nothing” can often be greater than the cost of a new solution. In fact, the analysis conducted in the 3X Systems and Glomark-Governan white paper found that for many companies, eliminating the labor of managing a tape backup would ...

5 Elements of the New Age Data Center
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
How can IT organizations embrace new cloud technologies and meet new big data
challenges without adding complexity to their companies? Enterprises generally are
embracing the new-age data center strategy needed to tackle these opportunities, but
key obstacles remain, among which the co-existence with legacy systems and apps sits
atop many lists.
The value proposition favors IT organizations today, especially in hardware acquisition
costs, and the opportunity to rent services and infrastructure in the cloud ...

All Clouds are Not Created Equal: A Logical Approach to Cloud Adoption in Your Company
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
In conference rooms worldwide, enterprise IT departments are evaluating entry into 'the cloud'. Armed with media reports and marketing materials, they are considering questions like, "Is the cloud appropriate for critical workloads? Will the cloud really save time and money? Does the cloud pose a security risk?"
There's only one problem with such due diligence: there's no such thing as 'the cloud'. Instead, there are multiple clouds, with different configurations, offered by different providers and ...

Building a Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2014-
Chances are your company has dabbled in the cloud. Perhaps you have moved the company Website to an on-demand cloud-based infrastructure service. Your developers may be testing their new applications in the cloud before releasing them. It's likely that your line of business colleagues subscribe to multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, whether or not IT was involved in the decision.
In this paper, we list the steps toward building a cloud roadmap, ...

Four Key Trends Impacting Mobile Infrastructure Strategy
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2014-
As mobile technology evolves, it's bringing rapid change to enterprises everywhere, so it's essential to know the latest trends and how to build on them to create real business benefits. IDC believes third-party mobility service providers will play a key role in helping you do just that. Read the analyst report to get expert insight into how you can benefit from key mobile trends; building blocks and best practices for successful deployment and adoption of ...

Redefining Networks for Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social and Security
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2014-
Much has been written about cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social, and IT security as significant forces that are transforming information technology and business. Much less has been said about the impact of these forces on networking-or about the role that networks play when business initiatives are based on them. As these technologies move from future trend to mainstream, the network as the common, critical infrastructure component will get close to the breaking point.? ...

IDC White Paper: Best Practices for Cloud Adoption
[ Source: IBM ]
September 2014-
Best Practices for Cloud Computing Adoption-IDC Dynamic Paper
Discover how your IT organization can become more agile by leveraging Cloud computing to its full potential. Enter a few basic details in this online tool to generate a customized IDC white paper that outlines the benefits and best practices of cloud implementation.

State of Cloud Survey
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2014-
We delve into 5 steps to take this year: Choose providers with an eye to standards. Hybrid cloud is too expensive to be a stopgap, so commit long term or keep public and private separate. Do not ignore Docker. When it comes to performance and security, don't trust, verify. Find your org's DevOps disciples and let them drive cloud strategy.